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English
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The Eternal Nature of the Family in Egyptian Beliefs
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By our Rites of Worship : Latter-day Saint views on ritual in scripture, history, and practice
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Provo, UT; Salt Lake City, UT
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The Religious Studies Center, BYU; Deseret Book Company
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83-105
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Some of the most powerful rituals are those performed within the home. Latter-day Saint
family life is replete with ritualized events from family home evenings to the annual father’s
blessings prior to school. Even rituals that we think may be unique, such as the sealing rites
in the temple, may be found elsewhere. As Michael Rhodes demonstrates, the Egyptian
ritual traditions, from writing letters to the dead to postures of the dead as clay figurines,
may have been instituted to perpetuate the family bonds into the afterlife, a concept readily
understandable to the Latter-day Saint. [Daniel Belnap]